09 Boxing Thread:: 12/12 Diaz.vs.Malignaggi HBO/Bradley.vs.Peterson Showtime

[gunna get it]

Super 6 super Middleweight Tournament

 

[lesgodsonc0]

A new thread...3 years...who said boxing was dead? Not around here.

Don't forget Diaz/Marquez on Feb 28th...

@ Cotto/Jennings being on PPV...I need to see this, but if Arumslaps a $50 price tag on it...I don't know about that.

Predictions:

Gonzalez KO's Gamboa...

yeah right.
I'm still leaning towards Collazo via split decision
Santana by decision
Tonio' by split decision, but it def wouldn't surprise me to see Mosley pull of the "upset"
Darchinyan by brutal KO
Angulo by decision
Nate: see above
Cotto via Alfonso Gomez-like beatdown
Pavlik squashes another mandatory

 

[eagle 0n]

 

[yungmatt]

 

[dam itz lou]

God I miss boxing. Cant wait for Margarito vs. Mosley. Im surprised it isnt on PPV.

 

[dako akong otin]

Gunna... add this to the schedule: Michael Katsidis vs Angel Hugo Ramirez in Cebu City... and yes, I'll be sitting ringside watching this.. same seatI'll be sitting when I saw Darchinyan vs Gorres
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Katsidis chasing Pacquiao, Philippines fight on January 31

Michael Katsidis has declared war on Manny Pacquiao and will invade the Philippines next month in a bid to force a fight with the legendary world champ.
Katsidis is set to fight Spain's Angel Hugo Ramirez in Cebu City, the Philippines on January 31 and hopes to lure Pacquiao into a fight by the end of 2009.
Katsidis' trainer Brendon Smith predicts Pacquiao will lose his next bout against Englishman Ricky Hatton and return to the lightweight division.
``A fight between Michael and Manny has been mooted for a long time and it probably would have happened if Michael had not lost a close decision to Juan Diaz in his last fight,'' Smith said.
``The Philippines is a boxing capital on the world scene and Michael is already very popular there following his win over Czar Amonsot.
``We would love the fight with Pacquiao. He scored a good win over Oscar De La Hoya but if Oscar had fought Michael it would have been the same result. Michael would have stopped him as well.
``Our opinion on Manny has not changed following that win. He is a great fighter but very beatable for a strong aggressive walk-up puncher like Ricky Hatton and Michael Katsidis .''
Katsidis and Smith have been at the Tiger Muay Thai fighting camp in the jungles of Thailand for the last six weeks preparing for the Filipino mission.

 

[gunna get it]

Katsidis wants to fight a southpaw who can crack? Casamayor was a problem for him, diff styles but damn, I dont see a fight with Pac ending well for Katsidis


I'd love to see Manny KO this dude real quick like.

will add Dako

 

[tmukg21]

What is the biggest fight of the year, so far based the schedules posted?

*rants about the lack of simplicity in divisions and need new organization*

 

[bigmike23]

what was the point of making this like 2 weeks early?

 

[shannonscrooks]

Mike still hurt about that De La Hoya beating.

What is the biggest fight of the year, so far based the schedules posted?

Of the fights Gunna posted up, Margarito v. Mosely is in my opinion the biggest.

Vitali Klitchsko v. David Haye is going down in April I believe, looking forward to that one.

 

[proshares]

A few more:

March 6
At Uncasville, Conn. (ESPN2): Delvin Rodriguez vs. Isaac Hlatshwayo, 12 rounds, rematch, IBF welterweight eliminator March 14
At TBA (HBO): Chad Dawson vs. Antonio Tarver, 12 rounds, rematch, for Dawson's IBF light heavyweight title April 4
At TBA (Showtime): Timothy Bradley Jr. vs. Kendall Holt, 12 rounds, WBC/WBO junior welterweight unification

Posted this in the 08 thread might as well start it up here...my only problem is that Haye/Maccarinelli KO is not on the list:


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[h1]Pacquiao is ESPN.com's Fighter of the Year[/h1]

By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com
(Archive)

Updated: December 25, 2008, 2:08 PM ET

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Never mind Fighter of the Year, Dan Rafael thinks Manny Pacquiao should be athlete of the year.

Not only did pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao have an incredible year, he had one for the ages.

The Filipino icon's fabulous year harkened back to a time 70 years ago when the great Hall of Famer Henry Armstrong claimed, in order, the world featherweight, welterweight and lightweight championships -- when there were only eight total divisions, instead of today's 17 -- during a 10-month period from October 1937 to August 1938.

What Pacquiao did was about as close as anyone likely will come to that monumental achievement, which is why he was the obvious choice as 2008 ESPN.com Fighter of the Year.

Frankly, with apologies to Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps, Pacquiao should be in the conversation for athlete of the year, regardless of sport.

In claiming his second fighter of the year nod in three years, Pacquiao added to his all-time great résumé and surpassed his accomplishments of 2006. That's when Pacquiao, 30, fought three times as a junior lightweight, twice knocking out rival Erik Morales in their second and third bouts and outpointing Oscar Larios in a homecoming bout in the Philippines.

That was a hell of a year, to be sure, but Pacquiao's 2008 was even better.

In a fantastic fight in March, Pacquiao edged rival Juan Manuel Marquez via split decision in a rematch of their 2004 draw to win the junior lightweight world championship.

Then Pacquiao -- who began his career at 106 pounds and had already won titles at flyweight, junior featherweight, featherweight and junior lightweight -- jumped from 130 to 135 pounds and crushed David Diaz over nine brutally one-sided rounds to win a lightweight belt.
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Rafael's Fighters of the Year​

[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Year[/td] [td]Fighter[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2008[/td] [td]Manny Pacquiao[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2007[/td] [td]Floyd Mayweather Jr.[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2006[/td] [td]Manny Pacquiao[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2005[/td] [td]Ricky Hatton[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2004[/td] [td]Glen Johnson[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2003[/td] [td]James Toney[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2002[/td] [td]Vernon Forrest[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2001[/td] [td]Bernard Hopkins[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2000[/td] [td]Felix Trinidad[/td] [/tr][/table]
The truly audacious move followed as Pacquiao, backed by the overwhelming confidence of trainer Freddie Roach, jumped up two divisions to welterweight to face icon and former six-division titleholder Oscar De La Hoya -- who just 1½ years earlier had dropped a tight split decision to then-pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather -- in the biggest fight of the year.

Although Pacquiao was the clear underdog, he laid waste to the Golden Boy in a stunningly lopsided destruction. Pacquiao won every second of the fight, battering De La Hoya until De la Hoya retired on his stool after the eighth round.

It was Pacquiao's third significant victory in his third weight division in the same year.

It was Armstrong-like stuff.

And Pacquiao did it all with a sense of humility and graciousness outside the ring, where he'd rather talk about his country than himself and give away money and food to the less fortunate rather than flaunt his increasing wealth.

"It's a big accomplishment if I win this fight. It's going to be boxing history and a big honor to my country," a humble Pacquiao said days before defeating De La Hoya. "To fight in three divisions in one year, that's amazing. To win the fight is really good for me and a really big honor to my country."

As great as 2008 was for Pacquiao, he has a chance for more greatness in 2009. If he wins a likely May 2 match against world junior welterweight champion Ricky Hatton, Pacquiao would secure a fourth significant victory in four divisions (and his third title in three divisions) in four consecutive fights in a little over a year.

Not even Armstrong did that.

"Well, what's most important to me after my boxing career, 30 or 40 years from now, people, they'll always remember me as a good fighter," Pacquiao said.

That's Pacquiao being humble once more, because no: They'll remember him as a great fighter. In large part, it will be because of what he did in 2008.

Other contenders:
[table][tr][th=""]Joe Calzaghe[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Joe Calzaghe, right, went out on top with his bout against Roy Jones Jr.

At 36, Calzaghe talked a lot in 2008 about retiring, especially in the wake of his two giant victories. If he does indeed call it a day, Wales' favorite son will have gone out with a bang after registering two significant wins and preserving his perfect 46-0 record. After reigning as a super middleweight champion for more than 10 years and making 21 title defenses, Calzaghe moved up to light heavyweight, where he claimed the word championship from Bernard Hopkins in April. Although Calzaghe was knocked down in the first round, he rallied to win a tight split decision, a victory that looks even better after Hopkins rebounded from the loss with a dominant upset decision victory against Kelly Pavlik. Not only had Calzaghe successfully moved up in weight to claim another title; he did it in Las Vegas, the first time he had ever fought in the United States. He followed that victory by adding another legendary fight to his résumé when, despite again being dropped in the first round, he easily outpointed Roy Jones Jr. in November in New York.

"It's not just beating two legends in the ring; it's coming from Britain and choosing to come to the States and, in both fights, going down in the first round and still winning," Calzaghe said. "I'm really proud of that. That's what I wanted to do this year. … What a fantastic way to finish off my career. I say I wanted to go out on top, and it doesn't get much bigger than that, does it?"
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Antonio Margarito[/th] [/tr][tr][td]

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Antonio Margarito, right, took it to Miguel Cotto in a classic slugfest.

For years, Margarito -- the "Tijuana Tornado" -- has searched for wide acclaim and big fights. He got both in a tremendous year. Fighting on a Miguel Cotto undercard in April, Margarito, 30, destroyed Kermit Cintron in five punishing rounds to claim a welterweight title in a rematch of Margarito's similarly one-sided win against him in 2005. That victory set up one of the most anticipated fights of the year: a showdown with the undefeated Cotto. Margarito gave up his 147-pound belt in order to facilitate the fight, and they met in July in Las Vegas in what turned out to be one of the best fights of the year. It also turned out to be the defining night of Margarito's 15-year professional career. Being outboxed and trailing on the scorecards, Margarito came roaring back late in the fight and stopped Cotto in the 11th round of an exhilarating bout to win another title. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum made the perfect analogy after the fight, comparing Margarito to a freight train going downhill until he finally ran Cotto over.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Bernard Hopkins[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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In his fight against Kelly Pavlik, Bernard Hopkins, left, showed age is not a barrier.

Hopkins is simply a freak of nature. At 43 and with 20 years as a professional fighter under his belt, he's still boxing at an extraordinarily high level. Two years after pulling a massive upset against Antonio Tarver to win the light heavyweight championship, Hopkins was still at it after a brief retirement. He fought fellow pound-for-pound entrant Calzaghe in April, and although Hopkins lost a split decision and the title, the bout was extremely close and many believed Hopkins, who had scored a first-round knockdown, deserved the close decision. Electing to continue his career, Hopkins faced undefeated middleweight champion Kelly Pavlik in a 170-pound catch weight fight in October. Hopkins entered as a heavy underdog against a man 17 years his junior and ran roughshod over him to score a punishing, lopsided decision win in one of the most amazing performances in boxing history. The win surely sealed Hopkins' place as the greatest over-40 fighter in boxing history.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Vic Darchinyan[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Vic Darchinyan dominated his battle with Cristian Mijares.

After losing a flyweight title in 2007, Darchinyan, the Australian-based, Armenian-born "Raging Bull," emerged as the king at junior bantamweight, where he became the first fighter in 115-pound-division history to unify three major titles. In February, the 32-year-old was held to a controversial draw against Z Gorres on Gorres' turf in the Philippines in a fight many believed Darchinyan won. But what made the year so big for him was the two fights that followed. In August, he demolished Dimitri Kirilov in five rounds to claim a world title. That set the stage for his November showdown with unified titleholder Cristian Mijares, the pound-for-pound top-10 entrant who had been on a tear and was heavily favored. In fact, in a poll of 32 media members, 26 picked Mijares to win. But the brash Darchinyan, who insisted he would break Mijares in half and knock him out, ignored the critics by turning in a brutally efficient performance en route to a booming ninth-round knockout.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Wladimir Klitschko[/th] [/tr][tr][td]

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Wladimir Klitschko was all over Tony Thompson.

Sure, the heavyweight division is not what it once was, or even close, but Klitschko is the best of the bunch, and he continued to separate himself from the pack in 2008. In February, Klitschko, 32, toyed with overmatched Sultan Ibragimov for a near-shutout decision in the division's first unification fight since Lennox Lewis became undisputed champion by outpointing Evander Holyfield in their 1999 rematch. In July, Klitschko dominated Tony Thompson before disposing of him via a one-punch knockout in the 11th round. Dr. Steelhammer closed his year in December by smashing former champion Hasim Rahman for seven one-sided rounds. That made Klitschko 3-for-3 for the year while barely losing a round.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Tomasz Adamek[/th] [/tr][tr][td]

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Tomasz Adamek, left, capped a busy year with a terrific performance against Steve Cunningham.

After losing a light-heavyweight title to Chad Dawson in early 2007, Poland's Adamek, 32, moved up to cruiserweight and was reborn. In 2008, he went 3-0 and scored two significant victories. In April, he dropped former undisputed champ O'Neil Bell in the first round, dominated the fight and forced him to quit on his stool after the seventh round. That win earned Adamek a title shot against Steve Cunningham, but first Adamek stayed busy with a seven-round drubbing of Gary Gomez. Then came the shot against Cunningham in December, and Adamek turned in a terrific performance in a fight of the year candidate. He dropped Cunningham three times and claimed a deserved split decision to take Cunningham's alphabet title as well as the vacant Ring magazine championship.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Juan Manuel Lopez[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Juan Manuel Lopez, right, got on a roll in 2008, finishing off Sergio Medina in his last fight of the year.

Puerto Rico's brightest young star had a breakout year. The 25-year-old power-punching southpaw started with a third-round blowout of Jonathan Oquendo in February. Little did we know at the time that the fight would be long by Lopez's standards. As an encore, he blew out Daniel Ponce de Leon in the first round in a June upset to win a junior featherweight title in a sensational performance. Then Lopez checked off two more first-round knockouts for good measure in his first two title defenses, blitzing Cesar Figueroa in October and Sergio Medina in December to set himself up for big fights in '09.
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[h1]Miranda right turns out lights on Banks, earns KOY honors[/h1]

By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com
(Archive)

Updated: December 26, 2008, 3:36 PM ET

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FNF Knockouts: Miranda KO's Banks

Whatever Edison Miranda's limitations are as a prizefighter (and there are many), two things have never been questioned: his gift for funny trash talk before a fight and his power.

In his native Colombia, Miranda was scoring knockout after knockout before arriving in the United States in 2005 with a reputation as a huge puncher, and his rep didn't diminish after his eye-catching first-round devastation of Willie Gibbs in his December 2006 HBO debut.

But after hard-hitting and exciting battles, although losses, against Arthur Abraham and Kelly Pavlik, Miranda was on the comeback trail when he met David Banks in a super middleweight fight Jan. 11 at the Hard Rock resort in Hollywood, Fla., in the main event of ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights."

It was a good style match on paper. Miranda was the aggressive brawler with power, and Banks -- coming off a stint on the third season of "The Contender" reality series -- was more of a technician.
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Rafael's Knockouts of the Year​

[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Year[/td] [td]Fight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2008[/td] [td]Edison Miranda KO3 David Banks[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2007[/td] [td]Darnell Wilson KO11 Emmanuel Nwodo[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2006[/td] [td]Calvin Brock KO6 Zuri Lawrence[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2005[/td] [td]Allan Green KO1 Jaidon Codrington[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2004[/td] [td]Antonio Tarver KO2 Roy Jones Jr.[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2003[/td] [td]Rocky Juarez KO10 Antonio "Chelo" Diaz[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2002[/td] [td]Roy Jones KO7 Glenn Kelly[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2001[/td] [td]Lennox Lewis KO4 Hasim Rahman[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2000[/td] [td]Lennox Lewis TKO2 Frans Botha[/td] [/tr][/table]
Banks boxed well in the first two rounds and was doing well in the third round as Miranda tried to find his target. For Banks to win, he was going to have to keep it up throughout the scheduled 10-rounder. But he could do it for only so long before Miranda struck later in the third round.

With Banks backing up to the ropes, Miranda flicked a left jab and followed with a crushing right hand to the jaw that immediately launched Banks backward and sent him falling between the second and third ring ropes.

"There's a big right hand," ESPN blow-by-blow announcer Joe Tessitore called with exuberance. "Holy cow! David Banks is halfway out of the ring! What a knockout!"

For the first seven seconds of referee Telis Assimenios' count, Banks lay almost motionless on his back, literally hanging like a teeter-totter as he balanced on the ropes. If you missed the punch and glanced at the TV, you might have thought someone had pressed the DVR pause button because Banks was virtually frozen horizontally on top of the rope with half his body inside the ring and the other half of his body outside it from the waist up about to fall to the floor headfirst.

Banks eventually grabbed the rope above him and fell back into the ring, but he couldn't beat the count before Assimenios stopped it at 1:15. Although Banks made it to his feet, he was wobbling and totally out of it. He nearly fell down again until grabbing the top rope on another side of the ring before the ring doctor guided him to a stool.

"Can you believe that?" Tessitore continued as the aftermath was unfolding. "Not even two weeks into 2008 and you have the leading candidate for knockout of the year! Edison Miranda! Wow!"

Turns out, it stood up as the knockout of the year. As for the second part of Tessitore's statement?

Wow, indeed.

Other sweet shots:
[table][tr][th=""]Breidis Prescott KO1 Amir Khan (Sept. 6 at Manchester, England)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Khan-quered! Breidis Prescott, standing, became the first fighter to blemish Amir Khan's record with a two-fisted assualt in September.

Khan's meteoric rise came to a crashing halt as Prescott pulled off a shocking upset in a 54-second destruction of Khan that featured two rough knockdowns of the lightweight prospect. Khan's biggest flaw had been his chin, and it betrayed him badly as Prescott hurt Khan with the first solid jab of the fight, then ripped him with a monster left hook. Khan went down as though he had been cut in half, but he popped back up on instinct. Moments later, however, Prescott delivered another flush left hand that knocked Khan down for the count in the corner. "He's counted out, and it's one of the biggest stunners in British boxing history in the modern era," Sky TV's Ian Darke exclaimed. "Breidis Prescott has knocked out Amir Khan sensationally in one round." When Khan finally did rise, he was doing the British version of the Chicken Dance.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Kendall Holt KO1 Ricardo Torres (July 5 at Las Vegas)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Holt it right there: Kendall Holt, left, exacted revenge by stopping Ricardo Torres in under a round.

Torres stopped Holt in the 11th round of their first junior welterweight title fight, but Holt exacted revenge and won the title in a frenzied 61-second rematch that ended when Holt, rallying from two knockdowns earlier in the round, just waxed Torres. After hitting him with a hard, but accidental, head butt, Holt connected with a massive right hand that left Torres unconscious on his knees against the ropes and in need of medical attention.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Shane Mosley TKO12 Ricardo Mayorga (Sept. 27 at Carson, Calif.)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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A sweet finish: "Sugar" Shane Mosley knocked out Ricardo Mayorga in the final moments of their 12-round fight.

In his Southern California homecoming, his first fight there since beating Oscar De La Hoya in 2000, Mosley gave the fans a sweet ending with a dramatic knockout. He had the junior middleweight fight in hand in the final round and could have coasted. But that's not Mosley. He was going for the knockout until the final bell, and he finally got it with one second left. Mosley had dropped Mayorga with a right-left-right combination in the 12th round, but Mayorga made it to his feet. But as soon as the action resumed, Mosley slammed him with a left hook to the chin that flattened him. Referee David Mendoza didn't bother to count, waving off the fight as the bell was ringing. "Such a dramatic knockout in a fight that was going back and forth the last few rounds," HBO analyst Emanuel Steward said. "Fantastic knockout."
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Juan Urango KO4 Carlos Wilfredo Vilches (April 23 at Hollywood, Fla.)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Juan Urango's vicious right hook turned the lights out on Carlos Vilches.

On the comeback trail after losing a junior welterweight belt to Ricky Hatton in January 2007, Urango was headlining against Vilches in a title eliminator on ESPN2's "Wednesday Night Fights" when he authored a scary knockout that left Vilches down on the canvas for several minutes attempting to recover from the bomb that hit him. It was a one-punch knockout as Urango unleashed a fast right hook that landed flush on Vilches' jaw and knocked him cold. If Vilches wasn't already out before he hit the canvas, he sure was after his head whacked the mat upon landing. Ouch, babe.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Yuriorkis Gamboa TKO1 Al Seeger (July 18 at Primm, Nev.)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
Gamboa, a 2004 Olympic gold medalist from Cuba, is an electrifying offensive talent and has scored several pretty knockouts, including a first-round blowout of Johnnie Edwards and second-round destruction of Marcos Ramirez in 2008. But the featherweight's most sensational knockout of the year came when he annihilated Seeger in 2:30 on "Friday Night Fights." All it took was a fast, short, destructive right hand to the chin that deposited Seeger flat on his back, apparently out cold before he landed.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Jason Cintron KO2 Pascali Adorno (Dec. 5 at Reading, Pa.)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
The kid brother of big-punching ex-welterweight titleholder Kermit Cintron hasn't displayed much pop through his first 10 fights. Although the junior welterweight is undefeated, he has only three knockouts. Still, this one on Telefutura's "Solo Boxeo" was explosive. He ripped Adorno with a straight right hand that clipped Adorno on the chin, and it looked as though Cintron was trying to punch a hole through his head. Adorno fell to his back, where he tried to get up, raising his arms over his head as if he was trying to do a sit-up that he could never complete.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Arthur Abraham KO12 Elvin Ayala (March 29 at Kiel, Germany)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Elvin Ayala, left, was one of three opponents to be stopped by Arthur Abraham in '08.

Abraham is a vicious puncher who stopped all three of his 2008 opponents, but none in more violent fashion than when he ended Ayala's night in a middleweight title defense. With 28 seconds left, Abraham trapped Ayala in a corner and unloaded a brutal left uppercut that snapped Ayala's head straight up before he fell to the ground on his knees. But Ayala didn't collapse all the way to the mat because, with his jelly arms at his side, he came to rest on his chin in a scary scene. It was another highlight-reel knockout in Abraham's growing collection.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Antonio Margarito KO6 Kermit Cintron (April 12 at Atlantic City, N.J.)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Six rounds of sustained punishment took its toll on Kermit Cintron.

What would a roundup of the year's best knockouts be without a terrific one-punch KO on a body shot? That's just what Margarito delivered against Cintron in their rematch as the "Tijuana Tornado" claimed a welterweight belt. Margarito had been dominating when he landed a thudding left hook to Cintron's rib cage. Cintron fell to all fours in agony. As referee Earl Brown counted him out at 1:57, Margarito stood in the neutral corner and mockingly motioned for Cintron to get up. He didn't.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Juan Manuel Lopez KO1 Cesar Figueroa (Oct. 4 at San Juan)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
Lopez's right hook is one of the most dangerous weapons in boxing, a sentiment Figueroa probably will agree with after feeling its full fury. Lopez, who had won a junior featherweight title by erasing Daniel Ponce De Leon in the first round in June, went home to Puerto Rico for his first defense and absolutely blitzed Figueroa in 47 seconds. After the two circled each other for a few seconds, Lopez pawed with his jab a few times, then unloaded the money punch, a right hook to the chin that crumpled Figueroa face-first. He struggled to his knees but couldn't beat the count.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Vic Darchinyan KO9 Cristian Mijares (Nov. 1 at Carson, Calif.)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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Vic Darchinyan's one-punch power and relentless aggression proved too much for Cristian Mijares.

Darchinyan had said all along in the buildup to the junior bantamweight unification fight that even though he was the underdog, he'd break Mijares in half and knock him out. He didn't quite break him in half, but he sure did drill him. Darchinyan, one of boxing's biggest punchers, knocked Mijares down in the first round and dominated the fight until finishing in style just as the ninth round ended. He forced Mijares backward into the ropes with a flurry of punches. Among them was a crisp straight left hand that caught Mijares on the jaw and dropped him. Mijares smacked his head on the bottom rope, spun slightly sideways and came to rest under the ropes. Referee Lou Moret didn't even bother to count. What would the point have been?
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Daniel Santos KO6 Joachim Alcine (July 11 at Montreal)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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No need to count; Joachim Alcine never saw the left hand that put him to sleep.

Santos became a two-time junior middleweight titleholder in style when he destroyed Alcine in front of the Canadian's disappointed home crowd. He knocked Alcine silly with a murderous straight left hand that knocked Alcine flat on his back, his hands sprawled at his side. Alcine, who never saw the punch, rolled over onto his knees and tried to get up but pitched forward as the referee stopped it at 2:06. Alcine then attempted to rise again, but he fell backward in a fruitless attempt.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Manny Pacquiao TKO9 David Diaz (June 28 at Las Vegas)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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"Need a hand?" Manny Pacquiao's two-fisted attack proved too much for David Diaz.

Pacquiao, the ESPN.com Fighter of the Year, moved up to lightweight to challenge Diaz for his belt and was grinding him down in a wickedly one-sided assault. He had ripped open a cut over Diaz's right eye and was hammering him with frighteningly flush punches until Diaz could take no more after Pacquiao unleashed a right jab followed by a sharp left cross that nailed Diaz's chin and deposited him face-first on canvas in the center of the ring. Referee Vic Drakulich immediately stopped it at 2:24 as Diaz rolled over on his back and blood trickled down his face.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Emmanuel Nwodo KO2 Ezra Sellers (Jan. 19 at New York)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
In 2007, Nwodo was on the receiving end of one of the most violent knockouts ever when he went to sleep in the 11th round against cruiserweight Darnell "Ding-A-Ling Man" Wilson in the knockout of the year. This year, in his first bout since the crushing loss, Nwodo, fighting as a heavyweight, was on the other side of a sensational knockout. Facing chinny Sellers on the untelevised portion of the Roy Jones-Felix Trinidad undercard, Nwodo gave those in attendance at Madison Square Garden a thrill. After earlier knocking Sellers down, Nwodo detonated a right hand on his chin. Sellers was out before he hit the mat face-first, and he stayed down for several minutes.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Alex Bunema KO10 Roman Karmazin (Jan. 19 at New York)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
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"Quick, someone get Roman Karmazin a pillow!"

Although Nwodo-Sellers was not part of the Jones-Trinidad HBO PPV broadcast, Bunema's upset knockout of former junior middleweight titlist Karmazin was, and it was sensational. Bunema was way behind on the scorecards when, out of nowhere, he wrecked Karmazin with a left hand, then finished him with a violent flurry reminiscent of Kelly Pavlik's knockout of Jermain Taylor. In the end, it was a right hand in the flurry at 1:36 that dropped Karmazin for good to his backside in a corner, where he fell to the side, his upper body hanging over the bottom rope onto the ring apron. No need for referee Johnny Callas to count.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Sebastian Sylvester KO12 Javier Castillejo (April 12 at Mecklenburg, Germany)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
Former junior middleweight champion Castillejo displayed a solid chin throughout his long career -- until Sylvester touched him with a jab and came behind it with a flush right hand on the point of the chin. The blow swiveled Castillejo's head, and he dropped to the canvas -- first pinning his feet underneath himself, then falling onto his back -- where he was out cold at 1:53 in the 12th round of Sylvester's memorable European middleweight title defense.
[/td] [/tr][/table][table][tr][th=""]Julio "Baby Face" Garcia KO1 Jose Medina (June 27 at Fort Lauderdale)[/th] [/tr][tr][td]
A year after sleepwalking his way to an upset loss to Troy Browning, Garcia returned to the ring. But it didn't last long -- 13 seconds to be exact as Garcia erased journeyman Medina with a left hook to the chin, crushing him with the first punch of the fight.
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[sylvestermcgrizzly]

Marquez/Diaz is gonna be a goody.... haven't seen vivian harris fight in yrs....Margarito/Mosley

...

 

[eagle 0n]

anybody going to the Margarito/Mosely fight?

Tix seem reasonable. I might be in LA around that time, might have to check it out.

 

[mextra45]

some good match ups to start the new year hope we have another year with some classic fights

 

[stringer bell 32]

Jay taking over the regins for Amo??!?!?

I think Katisidis vs Pacquaio would be a pretty entertaining fight

Michael got no chance in the world though

 

[shannonscrooks]

Talking to a dude at the bar tonight, both of us thought that Hatton v. Pac-Man has the potential to be a very entertaining fight.

Katsidis would get his lunch eaten by Pac-Man, wouldnt even be fair.

Gunna taking over the reigns....

...Where is Amo? Doesnt seem to bearound as much.

Collazo serves Berto his 1st loss this year, count on it.

 

[gunna get it]

Gunna taking over the reigns....

...Where is Amo? Doesnt seem to be around as much.
just tryin to keep the Boxing fans amped. Amo works a ton I believe.
This thread is all of ours

u want me to add something to title anytime, just lemme know You know how we do!

Collazo serves Berto his 1st loss this year, count on it.

I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THIS FIGHT!

 

[bigmike23]

yall just hating on Berto just to hate? im not even a fan but collazo *#*!$#% sucks.

any chance boxing every puts on a big time event like the MMA does every year of so many big names on one card? probably not if u ask me

 

[gunna get it]

yo, I cant front last nite's MMA card was SICK!
I havent watched one since Rampage got jerked. but Boxing would do itself a huge favor by doing that.

Prolly the only promoter who could pull that off is Golden Boy because he has so many fighters and they get a piece of the action.

Arum could prolly pull it off with like aco feature Margarito, Cotto card again.

 

[bigmike23]

ya i dont even %*+! with MMA like that but my boys at work keep telling me to watch and rampage was fighting so tuned in $%@@ was tight last night.

i would say it would be hard for boxing cause people going to think they should be the main event and $%@@ like that

 

[mextra45]

I can only watch certain guys on MMA then it gets boring , and I guess i look at it like im watching boxing and all of them have poor defense when it comes toblocking or slipping punches . And i dont really care for two dudes laying on each other on the floor lol . Im a boxing fan all day Telefutura fights>>MMA title fights

 

[eagle 0n]

I agree. I wish Boxing could put together cards like MMA.

I guess there's just too much politics in boxing. Too many titles and promoters involved to put together a showcase like MMA. Not to mention the fact thatin the big money PPVs all the cash is spent on the main event.

I can only watch certain guys on MMA then it gets boring

Same here. There's about a handful of MMA fighters that I enjoy watching. That's it.

 

[eagle 0n]

[h1]Holt-Torres 2 packed action, knockdowns and a stoppage into 61 seconds[/h1]
By Dan Rafael
ESPN.com

Kendall Holt, left, decided to stand and trade with Ricardo Torres -- and the decision paid dividends in the end.

When Kendall Holt and Ricardo Torres met for the first time in September 2007, Torres won in his native Colombia with an 11th-round TKO to retain a juniorwelterweight title in a controversy-filled fight. Both fighters were knocked down and the bout was marred by flying debris from the crowd, questionablerefereeing and a shaky stoppage.

A rematch was inevitable and it was set for Las Vegas on July 5. Little did anyone know that it would provide all the fireworks you could ask for on theholiday weekend as Holt claimed the title in jaw-dropping style.

Rather than a long, grinding fight like their first encounter, the sequel produced an entire fight worth of blazing action in a mere 61 seconds.

That's right, a 61-second firefight that was as exciting and breathtaking as anything seen in a prize ring.
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Rafael's Rounds of the Year​

[/th] [/tr][tr][td]Year[/td] [td]Fight[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2008[/td] [td]Kendall Holt-Ricardo Torres II (1st)[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2007[/td] [td]Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez II (3rd)[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2006[/td] [td]Somsak Sithchatchawal-Mahyar Monshipour (9th)[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2005[/td] [td]Diego Corrales-Jose Luis Castillo I (10th)[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2004[/td] [td]Marco Antonio Barrera-Erik Morales III (11th)[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2003[/td] [td]Acelino "Popo" Freitas-Jorge Barrios (11th)[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2002[/td] [td]Micky Ward-Arturo Gatti I (9th)[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2001[/td] [td]Micky Ward-Emanuel Burton (9th)[/td] [/tr][tr][td]2000[/td] [td]Erik Morales-Marco Antonio Barrera I (5th)[/td] [/tr][/table]
In that short burst of explosiveness -- one second more than one-third of a full round -- Holt and Torres produced an electrifying fight that included Holtbeing knocked down twice, a shocking comeback, a cut, controversy and a pulverizing knockout. Remember, it all happened in 1:01, which is why it was the clearchoice as 2008 ESPN.com Round of the Year.

With Mike Tyson, Julio Cesar Chavez and even Paris Hilton watching at ringside at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, Torres charged at Holt, lookingto pick up where he left off in the first fight.

Just 13 seconds into the fight, Torres landed a big right hand to Holt's head. Holt went down, but he popped back up so quickly that referee Jay Nadyhadn't even begun the count yet. After taking the mandatory eight-count, they engaged again and Torres was all over Holt.

A flurry of punches from Torres, including a damaging left to the head, knocked Holt down for the second time 31 seconds into the fight.

Holt was far more hurt from this knockdown than the first one, but again, he jumped up quickly -- so quickly, that Torres fouled him by landing another lefthook before Nady, who didn't even warn Torres about the infraction, could even begin the eight-count.

When the fight resumed, Holt was cut over the right eye and Torres charged him again. They were trading punches, Torres looking to end it and Holt fightingto stay alive. During the exchange, they accidentally smashed heads and Torres went reeling into the ropes. A split-second later, Holt unleashed a devastatingright hand that knocked Torres out cold. He dropped to his knees and came to rest slumped unconscious against the ropes.

Showtime's "ShoBox: The New Generation" broadcast team was as stunned as any observer by what they were seeing.

"Trying to fight back," blow-by-blow man Nick Charles said as Holt tried to stave off the Torres attack. "Now he's got Torres down! Roundof the year candidate! Ohhhhh, Torres is down and out! One of the most colossal rounds we've ever seen in boxing!"

Torres wound up on his back receiving medical attention for a lot longer than the entire fight had lasted.

"Absolutely incredible," Showtime's Steve Farhood said. "Torres was en route to winning this fight. I think that's why we loveboxing. One shot turned it around. Holt hit a seven-run home run."

 

[dako akong otin]

Originally Posted by mextra45

I can only watch certain guys on MMA then it gets boring , and I guess i look at it like im watching boxing and all of them have poor defense when it comes to blocking or slipping punches . And i dont really care for two dudes laying on each other on the floor lol . Im a boxing fan all day Telefutura fights >>MMA title fights

agree with you mex. call me a bandwagon MMA fan, because i'll only watch if its Anderson Silva, BJ Penn or Rampage fighting. My cousins are MMA fans andbrown belters in jui-jitsu... and I do watch UFC cards with them when I'm around town (in san diego). They have an MMA/Cross-Fit gym and I've beenhelping them out in their boxing skills the past 2 weeks. I got no ambition to be a pro fighter... i do wanna try to be a coach though.

 

[proshares]

Originally Posted by GUNNA GET IT

Gunna taking over the reigns....

...Where is Amo? Doesnt seem to be around as much.

just tryin to keep the Boxing fans amped. Amo works a ton I believe.
This thread is all of ours

u want me to add something to title anytime, just lemme know You know how we do!

Collazo serves Berto his 1st loss this year, count on it.

I CAN NOT WAIT FOR THIS FIGHT!

yall just hating on Berto just to hate? im not even a fan but collazo *#*!$#% sucks.

I'd assume most people say it just to piss Gunna off